Quote Originally Posted by a447 View Post
I don't find anything unusual about that.

When I travel with a group of friends, we don't all make individual bookings at a hotel; it is left for one person to arrange that. If it's not me, then I haven't a clue where we are staying until I get there.

As for "hidden away low profile places," they may indeed exist out there somewhere but I think we would have discovered them by now and someone would have mentioned them on one of the forums.

But if anyone finds one, be sure to let me know! In the meantime, I'll keep looking!
Exactly! And, yes, most guidebooks offer things like," what to do in Paris with two days, three days." etc. I think the operative question is do you want a sort of pick up bar type like telephone pub or the go-go bar wxperience. These are two very different experiences . I haven't stayed in BKK for some years. This coming trip I'm planning to stay two or three nights to break my travel before heading to Pattaya. So, I'm having some of the same thoughts. But, as a veteran of 28 trips I think I'll get my bearing quickly. Facial at Cutey Beauty, pop in the Golden Cock in the afternoon, dinner at the old Sphinx ( forget the new name cork and something ) then off to Dicks for a drink while watching the lads come to work and the, - well I follow the cutest to walk by.